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Chapter 17

Homecoming Dance Part 1

~TyLee's POV~

Korra and I signed up to help decorate the gym for the homecoming dance earlier this week, so I met her and rest of the volunteers after school. I was so excited to finally get to wear my beautiful dress today, I was pretty much shaking with excitement. My phone buzzed and I got a text message from a blocked number.

Watch your back tonight. You're next.

I stared at the text for several moments. Next? Next for what? What did they mean? I bit my lip and looked around me. Someone had to be messing with me. I tried to think of who would do that. I walked over to Korra.

"Hey, I just got this strange text. It's from a blocked number." I showed my phone to her and she read it.

"Sounds like someone is screwing with you."

I nodded. I got another text just then.

You're going to be such an easy target.

I trembled. "They just messaged me again." I said showing Korra the second text. Korra took out her phone and called someone. I turned my phone off and put it in my purse. This wasn't funny. Whoever was doing this to me had done a really good job of scaring me. If they texted again I didn't want to read it.

"Asami? Yeah, someone is texting TyLee threatening messages." She paused listening for a moment. "They said "watch your back tonight. you're next' and then sent her a second text saying ' you're going to be such an easy target.'"

I wrapped my arms around myself and sat down in a chair. I was scared.

"Yeah, TyLee is really freaked out. Okay, see you soon." Korra ended her call with Asami and walked over to me.

"Asami is on her way. She thinks whoever sent you those texts is threatening you to get to her." I hoped that wasn't the case. Asami told Mai and I that the guy called Ozai threatened to hurt her friends if she didn't do what he said. Asami walked into the gym after a minute and walked over to Korra and I.

"Can I see your phone?" She asked me. I reached into my purse and switched my phone back on before handing it to her. Asami's face hardened.

"There's two more texts now." Asami said taking a deep breath.

"What? What do they say?" I said.

"It says 'You're making it worse by telling your friends' and 'I'll be coming for you at the dance.'" Korra said. "Who the hell does this person think they are?" She continued, sounding like she was mostly talking to herself, annoyed.

"What do you think they are going to do to me?" I said, not bothering to hide the fear in my voice. Neither of them answered me and I looked down at my lap. Someone wanted to hurt me, or use me to hurt someone else. I had been so excited for the dance and I really wanted to go, but now I didn't know if it would be a good idea. Asami leaned down and hugged me.

"Hey, don't worry. I'm not going to let anyone hurt you." She said with an assuring smile. "Korra, Mai, and I will be with you the whole time, and the guys will be with us too. Whoever it is probably won't make a move if you have a group of people around you. Don't Worry."

I nodded. I knew my friends wouldn't let anyone hurt me. I wasn't going to leave their sides till the dance was over, that was for sure.

~Asami's POV~

Someone was threatening TyLee and I couldn't help but think that it was because of me. Ozai told me I had till the dance started to do what he'd told me to do, kill one of the newborn vampires like myself in his clan. It was possible that he was having somebody torture TyLee to send a message to me that he was serious. My mind kept going back to when he told me if I didn't listen to him he would kill the people I cared about. Now I not only had that to worry about tonight, but to make sure this cyberbully didn't harm TyLee.

Whoever it was, they were going to get a wake up call when I found them. I thought about who it could be. The main two suspects that came to my mind were Tahno and Azula. I thought over the two of them in my mind going by what I knew about them. Azula loves making people miserable, and Tahno is Mai's brother whom TyLee is already scared of.

Tahno might be playing around with TyLee because of the fact she is scared of him. Azula had tortured me in the girls' bathroom yesterday and tried to force me to drink from a girl named Anna. She got pleasure out of my refusing not to, and seeing how much it drove me crazy. She could possibly be scaring TyLee as well.

I weighed the two out. I concluded that it would be most likely Azula if it was one of them. Whether or not Mai and Tahno got along, I didn't think that Tahno would scare his sister's best friend like this. Sure, he might be a jerk, but this just sounded more Azula-ish. I also thought of the possibility of it being someone I didn't know.

Korra suggested that the three of us just focus on helping decorate the gym for the dance then deal with these threatening text messages. TyLee didn't talk much while we were helping and I could practically feel the vibes coming off her through my heightened senses. She was terrified.

When we and the rest of the decorating crew were finally done finishing up with the gym, we picked Mai up from her house and the four of us girls went to my house to get ready for the dance. We filled Mai in on our newest problem and she agreed that TyLee shouldn't go anywhere alone at the dance, even to the bathroom, or be left alone no matter what. Whoever it was that was threatening her was dangerous.

On a brighter note, TyLee seemed to cheer up a bit as we got ready. I did hers and Korra's hair and make up. TyLee insisted on doing Mai's and mine, on a strict agreement of no pink from all laughed about that and TyLee told us that she wasn't going to let some cyberbully ruin her night at the dance. I was proud of her.

We all put our dresses on and touched up on our looks as the guys arrived at my house to pick us up. TyLee's and Mai's dates, Haru and Zuko, came along with Mako and Iroh, as we had also planned before. Besides the slight fear I could still feel from TyLee, I could tell she was going to be okay. She looked really beautiful in her dress, as well as the rest of us did.

We came down the stairs from my room together and I saw all the guys' eyes pop out of their heads. We looked hot, and we knew it. Korra laughed.

"You guys look frozen." She said as we got to the bottom of the stairs.

"Not our fault!" Mako replied, and the other three guys nodded in agreement. I smiled at Iroh and he took me in his arms.

"Hello beautiful." He said. I giggled and blushed. He put one of those flower things around my wrist.

"Before we go," I heard Korra say,"We all need to take some pictures." She said pulling out her camera. Our four couples took turns posing with each other and we did some other pictures as well.

After that was over. I looked to TyLee and she nodded. The four of us girls decided to tell the guys someone was sending threatening texts to TyLee tonight so I told the guys. I also explained to them that we didn't want her be alone for even a minute tonight. The four of them quickly agreed and Haru took TyLee's hand and told her he wouldn't leave her side once.

We all headed outside to our cars and made our way to the dance. After we all met up again we all went inside the gym together.

~Tahno's POV~

I went to the dance because Azula forced me to come. I wasn't happy about having to go to a stupid high school dance and hated wearing a tux. When I got there I saw my sister standing with one of the guys in my gang, Zuko. I wasn't going to have that, one of my friends dating my emo sister. I overheard them talking and got the intention that they were in fact here together on a date. I made my way over to them.

"Look who it is, here on a date with my little sister." The two turned to me. My sister didn't look the least bit surprised to see me, but Zuko on the other hand was.

"So?" Mai said.

"Are you aware you are here with one of my friends?" I said to her.

"Um, yeah actually I am."

"Is there a problem with that?" Zuko asked after her. I turned my attention to him and narrowed my eyes.

"The fact you are here with my sister is the problem." I stared at him. Usually my gaze makes the other person break, but his expression changed to a glare of the same intensity as mine. He was challenging me.

"You can't tell me or Zuko who we can and cannot date or go to dances with Tahno. Back off and leave us alone." I heard my sister say.

I looked her in the eyes. "I can actually, go home Mai." She raised her eyebrows and scoffed. My face hardened, my compulsion didn't work on her just now.

"No. I think I'll stay here and dance with my date." She said that she turned away from me taking Zuko by the hand. I grabbed his other arm and jerked them both back.

"Dude, what's your deal?" Zuko snapped at me. I lifted my fist and went to punch him only to be interrupted by a slam to the back of my head just then, knocking me forward. Zuko kneed me in gut as I stumbled. I grunted and looked around to see who my attacker was. Asami.

"Leave my friend and her date alone Tahno." She said glaring at me.

~Mai's POV~

Zuko and Tahno were about to get into a fight. Just I expected one of them to throw a punch at the other Asami came up and decked Tahno in the back of the head and Zuko kneed him when he fell towards us, I laughed. TyLee, Haru and Iroh were behind her. Asami told him to leave us be and Tahno just walked away. I gave her a "nice one" look realizing she used compulsion on him. She smiled.

"I thought you guys were going to get into a fight." Haru said. "Nice hit Asami."

"Yeah, can't believe he listened to you like that." Zuko said. Asami shrugged like she hadn't done anything special just now. I wondered if TyLee had gotten any suspicious texts again. I was holding onto her phone for her so she could have a good time, not worrying about someone sending her creepy messages. I took her phone out of the small purse I had slung over my shoulder, which was really only big enough to carry the phone itself, and saw that there were no texts from the blocked number.. I wasn't sure if that was a good or a bad sign.

A slower song started to play and Zuko asked me if I'd like to dance. I nodded and he held his hand out and I took it. I put my hand on his shoulder and side and he did the same. I couldn't quite read the expression his face, he looked either mad or really deep in thought.

"My brother's a jerk." I said as we danced.

"Yeah, can't argue with you there." He said, looking down at me.

"I wonder why you hang out with him. You aren't like him at all."

Zuko shrugged and pulled me a little bit closer. I rested my chin on his shoulder. We danced in silence for a little. It wasn't uncomfortable or anything, but kinda nice.

"Why'd you ask me?"

He stopped dancing a moment and I looked him in the eyes. "You don't seem so bad for Tahno's sister."

I wasn't sure what I was susposed to say back to that, so I just looked at him confused. His lips twitched into what I thought might be a small smile. "You aren't too bad for being his friend." I told him. The song ended then and the dance tempo sped back up. We walked over to a table and he got me some punch. TyLee and Haru came over to us.

"You two having fun?" I asked her.

"Yeah, Haru is a really good dancer." TyLee grinned. "I saw you dancing too, you looked happy."

I shrugged. "Dance isn't that bad."

"Uhm...so no creepy texts?" She asked hopefully. I checked her phone again. There was a message.

Holding on her phone for her? How nice. That isn't going to stop me though.

"Nope." I said, feeling slightly bad for lieing to her but not wanting her to worry. When she and Haru turned away and went to talk to Korra and Mako I showed the text to Zuko.

"Looks like this person is still after her. Let's hope they aren't going to make a move while she is surrounded by a group."

"I think that is unlikely, but it doesn't look like they are going to go just give up." I forwarded the text to Asami with a note that TyLee doesn't know. I also sent Haru a text to watch out because TyLee's cyberbully is here at the dance, and again that she doesn't know and not to tell her. Asami texted back to be looking out for anyone suspicious.

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